THREE MEN WANTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 20 (Supplement)

THREE MEN WANTED.

From Siam has come a request to the League of Nations for technical advice on improvements to the harbour of Bangkok. Three consulting engineers (of England, France and , Holland) have been appointed by the League Transit Committee to undertake this work, and one of them leaves for Siam this month. SEEING THROUGH A FOG. HALF AN HOUR IN A TUNNEL. Few people would choose a tunnel as a place in which to spend an odd halfhour, yet that is what a number of experts did the other day, bringing an engine along to belch forth the thickest and blackest smoke possible. This strange scene took place in a quarter-mile tunnel on the L.NBR. at Marylebone, England. The atmosphere became worse than any London fog. Nothing could be seen. Suddenly a powerful light beam pierced the darkness and the smoke. It toas what the experts had come to see, a demonstration of a.new lamp with won-

derful fog-penetrating properties. The lamp, of 100,000 candje-power, was mounted on a trolley 'and as the beam was directed here and there details of the tunnel could be clearly seen. The illuminant is provided by chemical means.and is said .to have the best qualities of sunlight without heat. The pew lamp is being used by the L.N.E.R. for tunnel inspections, and it may soon be used for signals, for its beam can be seen through the thickest fog. THE CURSE OF SPEED. LIMIT AT OXFORD. Oxford is to have once again some part of that quiet of which the hurry of the present age has bereft hep, and her scholars will be able to study in her anciqnt halls with less disquiet from the traffic pegging.by. The city is to have a speed limit for her main streets, where no vehicle will in future be allowed to exceed 30 miles an hour. Even this is too fast for the heavier lorries and coaches; but as the work the bypass road is to be renewed many of these will no longer traverge the city. Thirty miles an hour. is quite fast enough for' safety in any town or vil.lage.